Hamilton standout senior Maia Hood (pictured right) scored a career-high 42 points in the Red Raiders’ romping of Maria Regina, 86-56. The senior recorded a double-double, adding 10 rebounds to her five assists and five steals.

With her bounding and astounding performance, Hood is now closing in on 1,000 career rebounds, sitting approximately 120-130 away, according to Hamilton coach Ben Carter. We will try to confirm the exact number and obviously track Hood’s progress the rest of the season.

Teammate Tiffany Corselli picked a bad day to have a great game, as her 36 points and 11 assists were overshadowed by Hood’s stat line. Carter was unsure whether or not the 36 points was also a career high for the Sacred Heart transfer, but again, once we receive any confirmation, we will let you know.

In the losing effort, Damonae Hargrove scored 25 points for the Tigers.

Phil was originally slated to cover Ursuline at Mount Vernon, but due to a postponement in that game, he switched over to see White Plains against the red-hot Huguenots of New Rochelle (6-1) instead.

We will try and get back on the prediction train full-force for tomorrow’s games and going forward. In the meantime, here’s the scores we have received so far tonight: (And before you ask, no, that is not a typo on the Roosevelt-Lincoln game)

(Picture of Hood by Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

Thursday, January 3

New Rochelle 59, White Plains 35

Scarsdale 78, Mamaroneck 28

Roosevelt 50, Lincoln 2

Dobbs Ferry 58, Ursuline B 50

Croton-Harmon 56, Port Chester 33

Ardsley 71, Woodlands 55

Hamilton 86, Maria Regina 56

Lakeland 40, Yorktown 27

Sleepy Hollow 50, Bronxville 26

Gorton 48, Riverside 39

Saunders at Yonkers, 4:15 p.m.

Pawling at Rye Neck, 4:30 p.m.

Solomon Schechter at Palisade Prep, 4:30 p.m.

Edgemont at Hastings, 6 p.m.

Ursuline at Mount Vernon, 4:15 p.m.

Here are Phil’s post game notes from the New Rochelle-White Plains game:

NEW ROCHELLE — In its 59-35 win over White Plains Thursday, New Rochelle’s crisp transition game was on full display.

The Huguenots effort was even more considering the 7-1 squad performed without standount guard Amirror Dixon (pictured below right) who is battling a knee injury. No timetable has been set for her return.

“Losing Amirror, she is something special,” New Rochelle head coach Bruce Daniele said. “She is our point guard and she was averaging 15 points and seven assists. That’s tough to replace.”

Luckily for the Huguenots, Sidney Pinn, AaLiya Hayes and Liz Tyson were there to pick up the slack.

Pinn poured in 19 points – including four 3’s – Hayes had 12 and Tyson had nine.

“In order to score more, we need to pass the ball around and get it to our bigs and shooting guards,” Pinn said. “We’re really proud of each other because we’ve worked hard. These are tough games and we are just getting better.”

Earlier this season, the Huguenots picked up solid wins against talented teams in Coleman Catholic, Woodlands and Peekskill.

“We stayed close and we won them at the end,” Daniele said. “Whether it was Hayes or Amirror, they made the play. Against Coleman, Amirror took it, got ofuled and made a foul shot. Woodlands, we just got hot. Peekskill we almost had a big lead and almost blew it.”

Ardsley 71, Woodlands 55: At Ardsley, Toni Pilla had 26 points. Casey Foley and Nicolina Chenard each had 19 points. The Panthers went 12 of 16 from the line in the fourth quarter. Imani Tilford had 27 points for the Falcons.

Gorton 48, Riverside 39: At Gorton, the Wolves were down 32-28 going into the fourth quarter and then they outscored the Rams 20-6 in the fourth quarter to win the game. Patricia Gomez scored 14 points for the Wolves, five of which came in the fourth. Dreonna Battle scored 12 points. Briana Ugarte scored 12 points for the Rams.

MIKE ZACCHIO has been with The Journal News and Lohud.com since August 2011 after freelancing exclusively for them since May 2010. Upon graduating from North Rockland HS in 2007, he earned his associate's degree in Communications/Media Arts from Rockland Community College in 2009. After RCC, he earned his bachelor's in Journalism from Purchase College in 2011. Motown music aficionado and future husband of Blake Lively.

12 Comments

hsbbfan, I don’t mind comments about Ossining in the blogs, but there is a time and a place for them and this is not the time nor place. Does it does it always have to be about “the big O” – their game vs. CTK will get plenty of attention (tomorrow).

Today maybe the comments should be about Hamilton’s two headed scoring monster (Hood with 42 and Corselli with 36), New Ro with a win over White Plains despite the team missing a key player (Dixon out with an injury), not to mention the one sided Scarsdale and Roosevelt victories.

Congrats to those teams today and all the others on their hard work—good job girls!!!

Congrats to Ms. Hood. I head the pleasure of watching her play for the 1st and only time last season against Ossining. She thoroughly impressed me and was a fantastic player. All of her achievements are well deserved. I look forward to seeing her again against Ossining and wish her the best of luck with the rest of her season and with her future endeavors.

I was at the New Rochelle/WP game earlier this week – she told me directly that she expects to be back in ‘a few weeks.’ After conferring with Coach Daniele, there is no official timetable yet. The diagnosis, as told to me, was some type of tendon strain.

@ Sad Display
Any team can come back after being down, look at Irvington who was being beat by 20 + against Ossining but kept fighting and made the game close, And that Hamilton game, I saw something totally different, I saw a team working hard with 5 girls and plus there top defender didn’t even play. What I see is basketball growing in Westchester and colleges coming to watch these young ladies who are required to work hard. thats why i respect Dan Ricci from Ossining who has his team working hard from the beginning to end and been following Hamilton for the last 2 years who seems to do the same. It’s not nice to bash just because of a lost and set out to get people not to like a program…lets enjoy how hard all the teams from Westchester are playing.

@ Opponent
Maria Regina is not an unworthy team, they play hard just as Hackley and Mary Louis Academy against Hamilton from what i say at County Center Slam Dunk. it look like Maria Regina just couldn’t keep up with Hamilton that day who only had 5 players for the game.

@ GameWatcher
That Ossining and Hamilton game I think is going to be a good one just like last year…it should be fun to watch Ossining offense and Hamilton Defense…think Ossining may be a little deeper with personnel from what I saw though which could hurt Hamilton chances. You never know though!!